Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-05-22
CANADIAN MOB.

a TORONTO OlspaeSh Va
slant tells of the treatment received by
William o, Brien, NJ. p, and editor OF
United Ireland, subsequent to the de-
livery Of his speech at Queens Park.
At half.past S o'clock, President ]. A
Mulligan of the local branch of the Ma
tional League called at the hotel and
asked O'Brien to go out and have a walk.
d. P. Cahill, Dennis Kilbride. the
eyicted tenant, and j. n. Wall, a
special correspondent of the New York
Tribune, were present and suggested 1t
would not be prudent to venture out, as
darkness had fallen, and a crowd OF
about 200 rowdies had gathered round
the hotel, kissing, hooting and groaning.
O'Brien, however, persisted IN gong.
The crowd grew in numbers and tur-
bulance and surged up to the very spot
where O'Brien and others were standing.
They groaned and Kissed into O'Brien's
face such cries as AWAY, traitor !"
"Down with the dynamiter !" and
"God save the Queen !" A riot seemed
imminent as the Orangemen were armed
with stout sticks just as they were at
the meeting in Queens Park. They
came up to O'Brien as he strobe along
York street and jostled against him,
making attempts to strike him on the
head with their sticks. He lodged the
blows, however, and his friends rallied
around him, but they were as one to
fifty. The policemen stood near by but
made no effort to dispense the mob. As
the party turned into Bay street, Cahill
had his hat knocked off by a stone.
Now the Orangemen began their real at
tack, for Bay street furnished a good OPP
portunity, being covered with broken
bricks and cobblestones. O'Brien had On
a tall hat which furnished a good target.
Wall was on his right and Kilbride and
Mulligan were on his left. "Look out,
O'Brien {" shouted Wall, "the stones
are coming. It's Belfast over again."
Its all right" replied O'Brien. cit
would be better for Lansdowne if they
had let US alone" As he spoke a volley
of bricks and cobblestones came flying
from Orangemen, grazing their heads, but
knocking the plastering off the adjacent
walls. Shouts of "To hell with the
Pope |! " "Kill the traitor " and SO on,
rose above the din.
The O'Brien party were still on the
sidewalk. and the Orangemen thronging
the street. d. T. Kellogg, a reporter OF
the New York Sun, now rushed be.
hind O'Brien, and was about to warn
him, when a stone struck O'Brien's hat
and knocked it off. O'Brien stopped his
head, and Wall, who was standing by
his side, lifted his head to look into the
direction whence the missiles came,
when a huge stone struck on the side OF
the head and tumbled him heels over
head. He was carried into a drug store,
where his wounds were dressed. O'Brien
attempted to take refuge in Sharpe's
laundry, but failing in that, rushed into
a bicycle store adjoining. A volley OF
rocks shattered the windows, and the
mob burst into the store acting like
demons, and showered missiles in the di.
rection in which O'Brien was. Some
ladies and old women screamed and
tainted, while the mob tumbled pell mel
over the machines, smashing them one
against the other in their fury amid cries
of "Kill the traitor !" Chang him =
"Lansdowne for ever!" O'Brien, how
ever, was safely led away by the officers
and reached the hotel in safety. Cahill
was knocked down and received two
cuts, and more than a score of other
persons injured.
Treasurer Teefy of the local branch
of the League sent the following telegram
to the leaders of the League in New
York and Chicago: "O'Brien was
mobbed in the streets of Toronto by
Orangemen. j. N. Wall of the New
York Tribune was seriously wounded"
O'Brien said to the Associated Press
representative: "Lansdowne has done
his worst. His police absolutely sur
rendered us to the mob, and had we not
taken refuge in a bicycle shop we would
have been killed."